Quotes About Commitment

My love, my love, do not forsake me. ~Anthea Cross-Thornley

Training is full-on. Some days I really don't want to get out of bed and hit that track again. Sunday and Monday morning sessions are always horrible. But who really looks forward to going to work on a Monday morning?

Caro: Are you sure, Philippe? I do love you, but we're so different. It won't be easy. Philippe: No it won't be. But who wants easy when they can have incredible? Yes, we'll have to work through some tough bits, but won't that be worth it when we see what an amazing life we can build together?

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

We had this angry phone conversation where he said something like, "We've been working on this thing for a whole month, and it's still not finished." It's funny in retrospect, because we were still working on it 3 years later.

It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.

I don't ever really feel that wearing my wedding ring is what determines me being married or not.

My family is my life, and I'll never lose that.

A marriage doesn't have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.

Let's just promise to be there for one another in our imminent and enduring times of trouble and thunder." "Deal," I said. He always talked like that. I would moon over him to CaCee, using that same lofty language.

That my husband stopped drinking with me was powerfully romantic, even if Hallmark doesn't have a card for it. Or maybe they do. It saved our marriage, or at least saved us from the stupid fights that didn't need to happen. Things said that didn't deserve to be said because it was the alcohol talking, not the heart.

When I love you, I want you to stick around.

And, most important, I love you.

Marriage is a contract. Love is non-negotiable.

It is essential [...] that discipline should not be practiced like a rule imposed on oneself from the outside, but that it becomes an expression of one's own will; that it is felt as pleasant, and that one slowly accustoms oneself to a kind of behavior which one would eventually miss, if one stopped practicing it.

First of all, the practice of an art requires discipline. I shall never be good at anything if I do not do it in a disciplined way; anything I do only if I am in the mood may be a nice or amusing hobby, but I shall never become a master in that art.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

God explains to Jonah that the essence of love is to "labor" for something and "to make something grow," that love and labor are inseparable. One loves that for which one labors, and one labors for that which one loves.

Amar a alguien no es meramente un sentimiento poderoso -es una decisión, es un juicio, es una promesa-.

Faith in oneself is a condition of our ability to promise, and since, as Nietzsche said, man can be defined by his capacity to promise, faith is one of the conditions of human existence.

Ma, oltre a conoscere teoria e pratica, c'è un terzo fattore necessario per diventare maestro in qualunque arte: non deve esserci niente al mondo di più importante.

Se alguém quer tomar-se mestre em alguma arte, deve ter a vida inteira devotada a ela, ou pelo menos relacionada com ela. A própria pessoa se toma um instrumento para a prática da arte e deve ser conservada em condições adequadas, de acordo com as funções específicas que tem a desempenhar.